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Digging in the recesses of selective memory, I want to say it was 2010 when Texas played Nebraska in Lincoln. Their defensive strategy for that game was to put as many defenders on the LOS as possible, then have the selective few drop during the play.

Crucially, the pressuring defenders favored gap integrity over straight line pressure. The result confused the Husker OL and prevented Taylor Martinez from escaping left or right. He wasn't fast enough mentally to diagnose coverage after the snap, and had no room to roll in order to buy that time.

Hurts is a great QB, but not the meth-addled cockroach runner that Murray was. Scipio documented the weak links on the Sooner OL and how to exploit that. If Keondre Coburn consistently causes a road accident pileup in the middle, Texas has the athletes and scheme to force the issue. It will take more than one player to bring Hurts down, but hitting the opposition hard is something the Texas defense excels at.

OU isn't an offense that can go one-dimensional and live. If the Sooner OL isn't winning battles for the run game, then defending it becomes a matter of keeping CeeDee Lamb in front of you. Concede FGs rather than jog-in TDs.

Are they still using the backup kicker, or do suspensions not apply when the fan base gets antsy?

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On 10/5/2019 at 10:18 PM, Nowhichski said:

Feel like we’re not getting a ton of pressure on passing downs without blitzing. 

It's usually due to the fact we have one real d-lineman, a couple linebackers at the ends, and shit load of DBs standing 12 yards deep...  I get the "confuse the QB" element and "bend" without giving up the big gain concept, but often the 1-2-8, or whatever it is, give the opposing QB 5+ seconds to wait for a receiver to break free.  Blitzing a DB on very rare occasions can be successful when the blitzer comes from outside the end, but when we send a blitzing DB as our 4th rusher on 3rd downs trying to hit a gap in the O-line, the DB too often gets smothered by someone twice his size.

Orlando is clearly of the mindset that he wants to play the dime most of the time to make the offense run and use speed to compensate.  That works to some extent, but that dime aint doing the trick on third and long like it should because he is getting predictable in when and how he decides to pressure the QB.  He makes the big bucks.  He needs to be less predictable with his personnel subs, fronts, and blitzes on the 3rd and long plays.

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1 minute ago, VinyVango said:

It's usually due to the fact we have one real d-lineman, a couple linebackers at the ends, and shit load of DBs standing 12 yards deep...  I get the "confuse the QB" element and "bend" without giving up the big gain concept, but often the 1-2-8, or whatever it is, give the opposing QB 5+ seconds to wait for a receiver to break free.  Blitzing a DB on very rare occasions can be successful when the blitzer comes from outside the end, but when we send a blitzing DB as our 4th rusher on 3rd downs trying to hit a gap in the O-line, the DB too often gets smothered by someone twice his size.

Orlando is clearly of the mindset that he wants to play the dime most of the time to make the offense run and use speed to compensate.  That works to some extent, but that dime aint doing the trick on third and long like it should because he is getting predictable in when and how he decides to pressure the QB.  He makes the big bucks.  He needs to be less predictable with his personnel subs, fronts, and blitzes on the 3rd and long plays.

What's the difference between a real d-lineman and Roach/Graham? Both of them are basically 300 pounds, so size isn't it. 

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1 hour ago, GoldAppleCorps said:

Digging in the recesses of selective memory, I want to say it was 2010 when Texas played Nebraska in Lincoln. Their defensive strategy for that game was to put as many defenders on the LOS as possible, then have the selective few drop during the play.

Crucially, the pressuring defenders favored gap integrity over straight line pressure. The result confused the Husker OL and prevented Taylor Martinez from escaping left or right. He wasn't fast enough mentally to diagnose coverage after the snap, and had no room to roll in order to buy that time.

Hurts is a great QB, but not the meth-addled cockroach runner that Murray was. Scipio documented the weak links on the Sooner OL and how to exploit that. If Keondre Coburn consistently causes a road accident pileup in the middle, Texas has the athletes and scheme to force the issue. It will take more than one player to bring Hurts down, but hitting the opposition hard is something the Texas defense excels at.

OU isn't an offense that can go one-dimensional and live. If the Sooner OL isn't winning battles for the run game, then defending it becomes a matter of keeping CeeDee Lamb in front of you. Concede FGs rather than jog-in TDs.

Are they still using the backup kicker, or do suspensions not apply when the fan base gets antsy?

OU’s receivers are way too good and Hurts is a good enough passer to kill us if we tried anything like that. 

15 minutes ago, VinyVango said:

It's usually due to the fact we have one real d-lineman, a couple linebackers at the ends, and shit load of DBs standing 12 yards deep...  I get the "confuse the QB" element and "bend" without giving up the big gain concept, but often the 1-2-8, or whatever it is, give the opposing QB 5+ seconds to wait for a receiver to break free.  Blitzing a DB on very rare occasions can be successful when the blitzer comes from outside the end, but when we send a blitzing DB as our 4th rusher on 3rd downs trying to hit a gap in the O-line, the DB too often gets smothered by someone twice his size.

Orlando is clearly of the mindset that he wants to play the dime most of the time to make the offense run and use speed to compensate.  That works to some extent, but that dime aint doing the trick on third and long like it should because he is getting predictable in when and how he decides to pressure the QB.  He makes the big bucks.  He needs to be less predictable with his personnel subs, fronts, and blitzes on the 3rd and long plays.

Lulz. None of this is true. We’ve barely run the Cowboy package, which is what you’re trying to describe.

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It sure seems like Anwar and Feldman are just describing the same thing in slightly different ways. Ash suddenly had a lot of free time on his hands, a lot to think about in terms of how he might be more successful as a coach in the future, and good reason to get out and network within the CFB world. He accepted an invite from his friend and former colleague Tom Herman to come sit in on some meetings and practices at Texas leading up to the OU game. He didn't accept some unpaid volunteer job, but I'm sure he had thoughts to share while sitting in on these things. No doubt Ash was doing it because it was an opportunity for him to learn and network as he looks to make his next career move, and it would be totally expected for him to be reaching out to his contacts at other schools and paying them visits as well. 

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26 minutes ago, Thermos H. Christ said:

It sure seems like Anwar and Feldman are just describing the same thing in slightly different ways. Ash suddenly had a lot of free time on his hands, a lot to think about in terms of how he might be more successful as a coach in the future, and good reason to get out and network within the CFB world. He accepted an invite from his friend and former colleague Tom Herman to come sit in on some meetings and practices at Texas leading up to the OU game. He didn't accept some unpaid volunteer job, but I'm sure he had thoughts to share while sitting in on these things. No doubt Ash was doing it because it was an opportunity for him to learn and network as he looks to make his next career move, and it would be totally expected for him to be reaching out to his contacts at other schools and paying them visits as well. 

And when someone pushes back, like Ash clearly did, you (Anwar) shut the fuck up. OB insists upon themselves to the detriment of our program, and it all starts with that fat d-bag Geoff Ketchum. SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!

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1 minute ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

Any remembrance of his philosophy or alignments.     I also wonder if he and possibly Fedora might be on Herman’s short list in case a coordinator gets hired away. Same with Beaty. 

 

https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2014/1/15/5310280/how-new-ohio-state-dc-chris-ash-attacks-the-zone-read

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8 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Excellent read, and maybe we’re getting Orlando some help with a mobile QB, something he really struggles with, in addition to maybe adding a pressure or three for Saturday that actually have a prayer of getting home somewhere other than the whiteboard. 

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6 hours ago, XYZ said:

Everybody struggles with a mobile QB.

Off schedule? Yes. On actual designed reads?  We suck at it more than most. Just watch all the sloths playing QB who manage to make hay against our defense on QB read game keepers. It happened again just last weekend. 

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Maybe after this game Orlando will have seen enough of what an actual defense looks like that we can stumble our way to the accounting bowl, or some such nonsense. 

20 fucking years without a hope of an impressive showing against OU. They pound our asses 65-14, and we can barely win with a field goal at the last tick of the clock. 

Being OU’s bitch is getting tiring. 

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2 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

He’s the fifth highest paid coordinator in the country

Take the loss, pussy. 

I’m tired of taking OU’s loss.

Fuck this. 12 minutes left in the 2nd qtr and the game is over. Fuck this. Yet again. Fuck Orlando. Fuck Tom Herman. 

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